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Pritzker Award Architects
Pritzker Award Architects
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ARCHITECTS
1979 - 2013
• PHILIP JOHNSON • LOUIS BARRAGAN • JAMES STIRLING • KEVIN ROCHE • IOEH MING PEI • RICHARD MEIER
• GOTTFRIED BOEHM • KENZO TANGE • GORDON BUNSHAFT & OSCAR NIEMEYER • FRANK GHERY • ALDO ROSSI
• ROBERT VENTURI • ALVARO SIZA • FUMIHIKO MAKI • CHRISTIAN de PORTZAMPARC • TADAO ANDO • RAFAEL
MONEO • SVERRE FEHN • RENZO PIANO • NORMAN FOSTER • REM KOOLHAAS • JACQUES HERZOG & PIERRE
de MEURON • GLENN MURCUTT • JORN UTZON • ZAHA HADID • THOM MAYNE • WANG SHU • TOYO ITO •
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Philip Johnson (1906-2005) was born in Cleveland,
Ohio in 1906,
1906 and in the years since has become one
of architecture's most potent forces. Before designing
his first building at the age of 36, Johnson had been At & T Building, NY Puerta de Europa
client, critic, author, historian, museum director, but
not an architect.
In 1949, after a number of years as the Museum of
Modern Art's first director of the Architecture
Department, Johnson designed a residence for
himself in New Canaan, Connecticut for his master
degree thesis, the now famous Glass House.
He literally coined the term "International School of
Architecture" for an exhibition at MOMA.
Johnson organized Mies van der Rohe's first visit to
this country as well as Le Corbusier's.
Corbusier's He even
commissioned Mies to design his New York
apartment. Later, he would collaborate with Mies on
what has been described as this continent's finest
Crystal Cathedral, Garden Grove
high-rise building, the Seagram Building in New York.
Community Church, California, 1980 University of Houston, Houston, Texas, 1985
By the fifties, Johnson was revising his earlier views,
culminating g with a building
g that p
proved to be one of
the most controversial of his career—the AT&T
headquarters in New York with its so-called
"Chippendale" top.
Joining forces with partner John Burgee from 1967
through 1987, their twenty year output has been
nothing short of phenomenal.
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United Nations Plaza I & II and
UNICEF Headquarters,
New York
York, New York
York, 1976
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Museum Abteiberg
Hans Hollein was born in Vienna, Austria in
Moenchengladbach (view from the
1934. From his earliest school days, he
garden),
g ) Moenchengladbach,
g
manifested a talent for drawing.
drawing Although he
Germany, 1982
chose architecture as his profession, his
works of art are in many public and private
collections around the world.
He has been described as far more than an
architect—artist, teacher, author, and a
designer
g of furniture and silverware. He
graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts,
School of Architecture, in Vienna in 1956. He
was awarded a Harkness Fellowship which
afforded him the opportunity travel in the
United States. He undertook graduate work at
the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago,
andd completed
l t d hi
his M
Master
t off A
Architecture
hit t
Jewellery Store Schullin II,
degree at the University of California,
Vienna, Austria, 1983
Berkeley in 1960. During those same years,
he was able to meet and study with some of
the architects he most admired, including
Mies van der Rohe, Frank Lloyd Wright and
Richard Neutra. Retti Candleshop (interior),
Vienna, Austria, 1965
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The work of Gottfried Böhm ranges from the
simple to the complex, using many different kinds
of materials, with results that sometimes appear
humble, sometimes monumental. He has been
described in the sixties as an expressionist, and
more recently as post-Bauhaus, but almost always Dwelling house, Cologne Weiss, 1955 Neviges Mariendom Pilgrimage Center
he stands alone in departing from the conventions
of established architecture
architecture, seeking to go one step
beyond.
Gottfried Böhm was born in Offenbach-am-Main on
January 23, 1920, the son of Dominikus Böhm,
one of Europe's most respected architects of
Roman Catholic churches and ecclesiastical
buildings.
g Since his p paternal g
grandfather had been
Museum of the Diocese,
Diocese City Hall,
Hall Bensberger,
Bensberger Germany,
Germany 1969
an architect as well, it is not surprising that
Paderborn, Germany, 1975
Gottfried started on that path.
His academic career began in 1942, when he
attended the Technische Hochschule in Munich.
He received degree in 1946. For another year, he
continued his education, studying sculpture at the
A d
Academy off Fine
Fi Arts
A t in
i Munich.
M i h Th Thatt ttraining
i i h has
been important for the clay models he develops
during the design process of his buildings.
He worked in his father's office as an assistant
architect from 1947to1950. During that time he
collaborated with the Society for the
Reconstruction of Cologne under the direction of
Rudolph Schwarz. In 1948, he met and married
Elisabeth Haggenmueller, who is also a licensed
engineer and architect. They have four sons, three
of whom have become architects. 9
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Kenzo Tange (1913-2005),
(1913 2005) winner of the 1987
Pritzker Architecture Prize, is one of Japan’s most
honored architects. Teacher, writer, architect, and Yoyogi National Gymnasium for
urban planner, he is revered not only for his own the 1964 Summer Olympics,
work but also for his influence on younger architects. Tokyo, Japan, 1964
He was born in the small city of Imabari, Shikoku
Island, Japan
p in 1913. Although g becoming g an
architect was beyond his wildest dreams as a boy, it
was Le Corbusier’s work that stirred his imagination
so that in 1935, he became a student in the
Architecture Department of Tokyo University. In
1946, he became an assistant professor at Tokyo
University, and organized the Tange Laboratory. His
students included Fumihiko Maki,
Maki Koji Kamiya,
Kamiya Yokohama Museum of
Arata Isozaki, Kisho Kurokawa, and Taneo Oki. Art, Yokohama, Japan,
Tange was in charge of the reconstruction of 1989
Hiroshima after World War II. The Hiroshima Peace
Center and Park begun in 1946 made the city
symbolic of the human longing for peace. Fuji TV Headquarters
Architecturally,
y, the Peace Center shows a deep p
understanding of traditional culture while at the
same time is a signpost in the search for a modern
style in Japan.
G d B
Gordon Bunshaft
h ft (1909-1990)
(1909 1990) hhas b
been
credited with opening a whole new era of
skyscraper design with his first major design
project in 1952, the 24-story Lever House in
New York. Many consider it the keystone of
establishing the International Style as
corporate America
America'ss standard in architecture,
at least through the 1970s. In recent years, it
has been declared a historic landmark, New
York's most contemporary structure to hold
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Walt Disney Concert Hall
Born in Canada in 1929, Gehry is today a
naturalized U.S. citizen. In 1954, he
graduated from the University of Southern
California and began working full time with
Victor Gruen Associates, where he had been
apprenticing part-time while still in school.
After a year in the army, he was admitted to
Harvard Graduate School of Design to study
urban planning. When he returned to Los
Angeles, he briefly worked for Pereira and
Luckman and then rejoined Gruen where he
Luckman,
stayed until 1960. Pritzker Pavilion, Chicago, Illinois, 2004
A project in 1979 illustrates his use of chain-link
fencing in the construction of the Cabrillo Marine
Museum, a 20,000 square foot compound of
buildings that he "laced together" with chain-link
fencing These "shadow structures" as Gehry
fencing.
calls them, bind together the parts of the
museum.
The belief that "architecture is art" has been a
part of Frank Gehry's being for as long as he can
remember. In fact, when asked if he had any
t
mentors or idols
id l iin th
the hi
history
t off architecture,
hit t hi
his
reply was to pick up a Brancusi photograph on his
desk, saying, "Actually, I tend to think more in
terms of artists like this. He has had more
influence on my work than most architects. In MIT Stata Center
Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao, Spain, 1997
fact, someone suggested that my skyscraper that
won a New York competition looked like a
Brancusi sculpture. I could name Alvar Aalto from
the architecture world as someone for whom I
have great respect, and of course, Philip
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Aldo Rossi (1931-1997) has achieved distinction as a
theorist, author, artist, teacher and architect, in his
native Italy as well as internationally. Noted critic and
historian Vincent Scully
historian, Scully, has compared him to Le
Corbusier as a painter-architect. Ada Louise Huxtable,
architectural critic and Pritzker juror has described
Rossi as "a poet who happens to be an architect."
Rossi was born in Milan, Italy where his father was
engaged in the manufacture of bicycles, bearing the
familyy name,, a business he says y was founded byy his Bonnefanten Museum,
grandfather. While growing up during the years of Maastrict, Netherlands, 1995 San Cataldo Cemetery, Modena, Italy, 1984
World War II, Rossi’s early education took place at
Lake Como, and later in Lecco. Shortly after the war
ended, he entered the Milan Polytechnic University,
receiving his architecture degree in 1959. Rossi served
as editor of the Architectural magazine Casabella from
1955 tto 1964
1964. “La
La Conica” Espresso Coffee Maker,
Maker 1982
Although early film aspirations were gradually
transposed to architecture, he still retains strong
interest in drama. In fact, he says, "In all of my
architecture, I have always been fascinated by the
theatre." For the Venice Biennale in 1979, he designed
the Teatro del Mondo, a floating theatre, built under a
joint commission from the theatre and architecture
commissions of the Biennale. It seated 250 around a
central stage. It was towed by sea to the Punta della
Dogana where it remained through the Biennale. Rossi
described the project in its site, as "a place where
architecture ended and the world of the imagination
Quartier Schützenstrasse, Berlin,
began." More recently, he completed a major building
Germany, 1998
for Genoa, the Carlo Felice Theatre which is the
National Opera House. In Canada, the first Rossi
project in the Western Hemisphere was completed in
1987 when the Toronto Lighthouse Theatre was built 13
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Fire Station #4, Columbus, Indiana, 1968
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"Every design," says Siza, "is a rigorous attempt to
capture a concrete moment of a transitory image in
all its nuances. The extent to which this transitory
quality is captured,
captured is reflected in the designs: the
more precise they are, the more vulnerable."
While working on a sizable office building design
for Porto, Siza discounted any possibility of
blending the new building by imitating its
Facultad de Arquitectura, University of
surroundings. The area was too important since it
Centro de Art Gallego, Spain, 1993 Porto, Portugal, 1993
was between the historic center of the cityy and a
bridge that has great significance because it was
built by Eiffel in 1866. He explained, "We have
gone beyond the stage whereby unity of language
was believed to be the universal solution for
architectural problems. Recognizing that
complexity is the nature of the city,
t
transformational
f ti l movements
t take
t k on very different
diff t
forms."
Siza, whose full name is Alvaro Joaquim de Meio
Siza Vieira, was born on June 25, 1933 in the
small coastal town of Matosinhos, just north of
Porto, Portugal. Siza studied at the University of
Porto School of Architecture from 1949 through
1955, completing his first built works (four houses
in Matosinhos) even before ending his studies in
1954. That same year he opened his private
practice in Porto.
In 1966, Siza began teaching at the University, and
in 1976, he was made a tenured Professor of
Bouça Housing Complex, Servei de Meteorologica,
Architecture. In addition to his teaching there, he
Porto, Portugal, 1973 Barcelona, Spain, 1992
has been a visiting professor at the Graduate
School of Design, Harvard University; the
University of Pennsylvania; Los Andes University
of Bogota; and the Ecole Polytechnique of 15
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Tokyo Metropolitan
Gymnasium, Tokyo, Japan,
1990
Makuhari Messe I,
Fumihiko Maki calls himself a modernist, Tokyo, Japan, 1989
unequivocally. His buildings tend to be direct, at
times understated,
understated and made of metal,metal concrete
and glass, the classic materials of the modernist
age, but the canonical palette has also been
extended to include such materials as mosaic tile,
anodized aluminum and stainless steel. Along with
a great many other Japanese architects, he has
maintained a consistent interest in new technology gy
as part of his design language, quite often taking
advantage of modular systems in construction. He
makes a conscious effort to capture the spirit of a
place and an era, producing with each building or
complex of buildings, a work that makes full use of
all that is presently at his command. Maki often Spiral, Tokyo, Japan, 1985
National Museum of Modern Art
speaks of the idea of creating "unforgettable
Kyoto, Kyoto, Japan, 1986
scenes"—in effect, settings to accommodate and
complement all kinds of human interaction—as the
inspiration and starting point for his designs.
Maki, who was born in Tokyo on September 6,
1928, studied with Kenzo Tange at the University
of Tokyo
y where he received his Bachelor of
Architecture degree in 1952. Maki then spent the
next year at Cranbrook Academy of Art in
Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. After completing a
Master of Architecture degree at the Graduate
School of Design (GSD), Harvard University, he
apprenticed at the firms Skidmore, Owings and
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Merrill, New Y York
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Associates in Cambridge.
Tokyo Church of Christ,
Tokyo, Japan, 1995
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LVMH Tower, New York
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Norman Foster was born in Manchester
in 1935.
1935 After graduating from
Manchester University School of
Architecture and City Planning in 1961
he won a Henry Fellowship to Yale
London City Hall
University, where he gained a Master’s
Degree in Architecture.
He is the founder and chairman of
Foster and Partners. Founded in
London in 1967, it is now a worldwide
Queen Alia Airport, Amman Jordan Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank
practice, with project offices in more
than twenty countries. Over the past
four decades the company has been
responsible for a strikingly wide range of
work from urban master plans
work, plans, public
infrastructure, airports, civic and cultural
buildings, offices and workplaces to
private houses and product design.
Foster has established an international
reputation with projects as diverse as
the New German Parliament in the
Reichstag in Berlin, Chek Lap Kok
International Airport and the Hongkong
and Shanghai Bank in Hong Kong,
Commerzbank Headquarters in
Frankfurt, Willis Faber & Dumas Head
Office in Ipswich, and the Sainsbury
C t for
Centre f Visual
Vi lA
Arts
t in
i NNorwich.
i h Si
Since
its inception, the practice has received
more than 400 awards and citations for
The Reichstag New
excellence and has won numerous
German Parliament, 22
international and national competitions.
Berlin, Germany, 1999 The Gherkin Building, London
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Netherlands Dance Theatre, The
Educatorium, Utrecht, Netherlands, 1997
Hague, Netherlands, 1988
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One Thousand One Museum Tower, Miami City Life Milano
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“Paulistano” Chaise Forma Store, São
Lounge, ffurniture
L it Paulo, Brazil, 1987
design, 1957
Nanjing Museum
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Ceramic House
Xiangshan Campus
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Serpentine Gallery Pavilion
Toyo Ito
2013 – Pritzker Winner Tower of Winds Sendai Mediatheque